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Election time just took an even uglier turn.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gop-headquarters-in-nc-town-is-firebombed/ar-AAj1Uyd?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=ASUDHP

Just stick to stealing each other's cheap plastic signs and name-calling on Facebook.

 BigWaaagh wrote:
Election time just took an even uglier turn.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gop-headquarters-in-nc-town-is-firebombed/ar-AAj1Uyd?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=ASUDHP

Ah, it's like the Progressive Era all over again. Now all we need is some ethnically based Union on Union violence

Oh, that's not good. Glad nobody was hurt.

Stupidest thing to do. Could have hurt someone, and only adds weight to Trump's lies about the election being rigged.

I mean, at this point, in this election? I wouldn't put it past some Trump supporter to firebomb the place either to protest what they see as the GOP not backing Trump like they should, or knowing the Democrats are going to get the blame.

Good luck American people, this election is shaping up to be a very nasty one.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/what-if-trump-supporters-believe-the-rigged-election-hype.html

“Trump said to watch you precincts. I’m going to go, for sure,” said Steve Webb, a 61-year-old carpenter from Fairfield, Ohio.

“I’ll look for … well, it’s called racial profiling. Mexicans. Syrians. People who can’t speak American,” he said. “I’m going to go right up behind them. I’ll do everything legally. I want to see if they are accountable. I’m not going to do anything illegal. I’m going to make them a little bit nervous.”

Making them nervous to affect the vote IS illegal so that person is due for a swift kick of reality I suspect

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Making them nervous to affect the vote IS illegal so that person is due for a swift kick of reality I suspect

I'm sure that the Dems will also be pleased to know that if they get a bus full of white people who speak "american" none of these people will look twice at them when they turn up to vote for the 20th time that day.

 BigWaaagh wrote:
Election time just took an even uglier turn.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gop-headquarters-in-nc-town-is-firebombed/ar-AAj1Uyd?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=ASUDHP

I hope whomever did this is swiftly caught and punished.

a firebombing you say, it wasn't a firebombing, it was a cook out, we all do them. and look at what the trump supporters were doing:

http://www.salon.com/2016/10/14/armed-donald-trump-supporters-caught-menacing-democratic-campaign-office/

A pro-Donald Trump protester has attracted attention for standing alone outside a Virginia Democratic campaign office with his gun.

On Thursday, Daniel Parks stood outside a Palmyra campaign office for congressional candidate Jane Dittmar. Witnesses described him as staring directly into the office all day and turning sideways to expose his gun he was legally carrying. He was eventually joined by another protester, who was also armed.

see trump is worse and the firebombers shouldn't be held accountable because of what the trump supporters did.

am I doing this right?

Good to see Trump is already blaming it on Clinton.
http://imgur.com/a/rRdwv

Trump and Clinton both should be tested for traces of petrol.

sirlynchmob wrote:
a firebombing you say, it wasn't a firebombing, it was a cook out, we all do them. and look at what the trump supporters were doing:

http://www.salon.com/2016/10/14/armed-donald-trump-supporters-caught-menacing-democratic-campaign-office/

A pro-Donald Trump protester has attracted attention for standing alone outside a Virginia Democratic campaign office with his gun.

On Thursday, Daniel Parks stood outside a Palmyra campaign office for congressional candidate Jane Dittmar. Witnesses described him as staring directly into the office all day and turning sideways to expose his gun he was legally carrying. He was eventually joined by another protester, who was also armed.

see trump is worse and the firebombers shouldn't be held accountable because of what the trump supporters did.

am I doing this right?

That's a surprisingly good analogy. What the Trumpeters did was certainly wrong but not enough to be criminal while what the firebomber did was not only the greater wrong but unquestionably criminal. So yes, you are doing it right.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Good to see Trump is already blaming it on Clinton.
http://imgur.com/a/rRdwv

And claiming he's winning. Okay in what reality?

 Ahtman wrote:

 Steve steveson wrote:
So out of 26 current amendments (25 if you ignore the one that was just repealing another) he is against 8. So he is against 1/3rd of the amendments. Never mind the ones that are not really relevant, and his other issues with other parts of the constitution, like article 3 and 7.

But guns Steve...guns.

*places hand comfortingly on shoulder*

But guns.

Butt guns.

tneva82 wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Good to see Trump is already blaming it on Clinton.
http://imgur.com/a/rRdwv

And claiming he's winning. Okay in what reality?

He's neither winning the election in general or North Carolina in specific, so no idea what he's referring to to be honest.

 Ouze wrote:

tneva82 wrote:

 Co'tor Shas wrote:
Good to see Trump is already blaming it on Clinton.
http://imgur.com/a/rRdwv

And claiming he's winning. Okay in what reality?

He's neither winning the election in general or North Carolina in specific, so no idea what he's referring to to be honest.

It's simple.

Trump is never defeated in anyfing. If he wins he wins, if he loses it was rigged so it don't count. If he backs out it don't count neither, cos he can come back fer annuver go on Twitter, see!

This is the kind of 'crazy Ivan' thing that comes out of nowhere and rallies support for this drowning clown. Exactly one of the kind of things that keeps me nervous and prevents me from saying this election is a done deal. It isn't.

One of the things that could help Trump is the news reporting that he's pretty much done, or people believing so, and not bothering to turn out and vote for Hillary.

Thats what happened in BC, and how the Liberals held onto power over the NDP. We got stuck with Christie Clark for another four years... sigh...

(EDIT: I Did go out and vote, but know a bunch of morons that didn't because they didn't see the need.)

 Crazyterran wrote:
One of the things that could help Trump is the news reporting that he's pretty much done, or people believing so, and not bothering to turn out and vote for Hillary.

Thats what happened in BC, and how the Liberals held onto power over the NDP. We got stuck with Christie Clark for another four years... sigh...

(EDIT: I Did go out and vote, but know a bunch of morons that didn't because they didn't see the need.)

And another of the reasons I keep screaming that nobody can be complacent about the polls.

 Crazyterran wrote:
One of the things that could help Trump is the news reporting that he's pretty much done, or people believing so, and not bothering to turn out and vote for Hillary.

Thats what happened in BC, and how the Liberals held onto power over the NDP. We got stuck with Christie Clark for another four years... sigh...

(EDIT: I Did go out and vote, but know a bunch of morons that didn't because they didn't see the need.)

Yep. Low voting % always helps protest candinates. In this case Trump. Which is why it's never done before votes are counted.

 BigWaaagh wrote:
Election time just took an even uglier turn.


http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gop-headquarters-in-nc-town-is-firebombed/ar-AAj1Uyd?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=ASUDHP

Does Hillary and Obama have an alibi or it is done by the Republicans themselves?

Jokes aside , i hope they get this loony

Clearly Hillary on a crystal meth fueled rampage. Prepping for the next debate gone wrong.

Seriously though, this is worrying. Aggression on both sides has gone to far. Whilst no one has called for this level of violence it is clear that politics in the US has got to a worrying point (And I feel like the UK has the same sort of issues).

Well, one candidate hasnt called for violence, The other has suggested that mayheps violence would not be such an unfortunate thing to happen to an opposing candidate...

Julian Assange apparently went dark a few hours ago. I hope he's okay!

Him, his staff and his suppliers are all doing excellent work to expose federal, corporate and media corruption and collusion. Thankfully it looks like many folks are either aware of what's going on and/or have opened their eyes. Not sure how well I trust Google's trend results as their search filters have been biasly tampered with, so what's to stop the trends from being tampered with too?

 The Airman wrote:


Him, his staff and his suppliers are all doing excellent work

OH MY GOD !

It's like there's .. I dunno... a plan.. rehearsals...

Otherwise -- if you're not careful -- your political campaign can be totally derailed as you lurch from ill timed/chosen comment to poorly phrased twitter rant.

The fact that "Political campaign being run like a political campaign" is, apparently, news is a bit worrying for ..well..... people.

from the Japan Times today

 The Airman wrote:
Julian Assange apparently went dark a few hours ago. I hope he's okay!

Him, his staff and his suppliers are all doing excellent work to expose federal, corporate and media corruption and collusion. ...

All he has done is to make some general accusations without offering any factual basis for them.

The Trump concept is that his campaign is failing because of some media/Democratic conspiracy so large and powerful that it is able to control the entire world's press.

 The Airman wrote:
Julian Assange apparently went dark a few hours ago. I hope he's okay!

Hey, remember a few years ago, when Mike Huckabee was calling for him to be executed, and Sean Hannity said he was waging war on the US? Funny how people change once you through out a few pitches for the red team, isn't it?

 Maddermax wrote:
Good luck American people, this election is shaping up to be a very nasty one.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/what-if-trump-supporters-believe-the-rigged-election-hype.html

“Trump said to watch you precincts. I’m going to go, for sure,” said Steve Webb, a 61-year-old carpenter from Fairfield, Ohio.

“I’ll look for … well, it’s called racial profiling. Mexicans. Syrians. People who can’t speak American,” he said. “I’m going to go right up behind them. I’ll do everything legally. I want to see if they are accountable. I’m not going to do anything illegal. I’m going to make them a little bit nervous.”

"Can't speak American..."

Hooray! I'm now bilingual, because I can speak AMERICAN and English

 Ouze wrote:

 The Airman wrote:
Julian Assange apparently went dark a few hours ago. I hope he's okay!

Hey, remember a few years ago, when Mike Huckabee was calling for him to be executed, and Sean Hannity said he was waging war on the US? Funny how people change once you through out a few pitches for the red team, isn't it?

Personally I'm more shocked that "revealing the between the lines" that everyone capable of reading between the lines already knows is considered "good work." And that's just Assange at his best when he isn't being blatantly irresponsible.

Cause seriously. Real government transparency is all about releasing people's credit cards and social security numbers onto the internet.